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Trying to get away from the conventions of poetry, he refers to himself as an " Antipoet ". His poetic language renounces the refinement of most Latin American Literature and adopts a more colloquial tone similar to prose. He comes from the artistically prolific Chilean Parra Family of performers, musicians, artists, and writers. Nicanor Parra was born in 1914 in Chillan, a small town in southern Chile, the son of a schoolteacher. In 1933 he entered the Instituto Pedagogico of the University of Chile, and qualified as a teacher of mathematics and physics in 1938, one year after his first book appeared: Cancionero sin Nombre. After teaching in Chilean secondary schools, he went in 1943 to Brown University in the U.S. to continue his studies in physics. He returned to Chile as Professor at the University in 1946. Since 1952 Parra has been Professor of Theoretical Physics in Santiago, and has read his poetry in England, France, Russia, Mexico, Cuba, and the United States. He has published several books, including one in collaboration with his great compatriot, Pablo Neruda. FAMILY Other famous members of his family are folk singer and creator of the ''Nueva Cancion Chilena'' Violeta Parra and musician Ángel Parra , a former political prisoner under the Pinochet regime, among others. LIST OF WORKS
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